Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust

Posted Sep 27, 2024 12:26 UTC (Fri) by andy_shev (subscriber, #75870)
In reply to: Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: Committing to Rust in the kernel

“Obviously recently ported hardware would require a newer GCC so take that with a grain of salt.” Obviously? Not at all to me! Can you elaborate on how you came to this conclusion? (Also it looks like you missed word “driver” along the lines)

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Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust

Posted Sep 27, 2024 16:55 UTC (Fri) by knewt (subscriber, #32124) [Link]

>> “Obviously recently ported hardware would require a newer GCC so take that with a grain of salt.” Obviously? Not at all to me! Can you elaborate on how you came to this conclusion? (Also it looks like you missed word “driver” along the lines)

I imagine the thought here is that newer processor architectures will have only gotten GCC support more recently, and as such only in newer versions of GCC, which feels reasonable.